You will need to go online with your computer to find it, but it is well worth a look. It is a video on YouTube celebrating Spring Hill High School's Class A State Championship football team from 1986. There's some great vintage footage of the historical unit in action.
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You have no doubt seen the somewhat rustic, nicely structured and designed sign welcoming incomers to Spring Hill from the north side. One problem, though. The sign is situated beyond Spring Hill's outskirts and a half mile inside Thompson's Station. Spring Hill's boundary there is at the tree line behind Tanyard Springs Family Dentistry. The sign needs to be moved to its more specific and exact location. Why not get it right?
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The Bradford pear tree is one tree often not allowed in the planning stage of business communities. I should point out that "not allowed" is more pointed than "not recommended." Other trees getting nixed include American elm, box elder, mimosa, mulberry and silver maple. The City of Spring Hill has no such restrictions for the Bradford pear. The City of Franklin does. City overseers there recognized that the tree's brittle nature caused many problems regarding cleanup from broken limbs and fallen Bradford pear trees during wind storms. The costs involved and the tie-up of city work crews created problems. The solution was simple. Outlaw the tree for city use. Other, studier trees now line medians, sidewalks and streets in Franklin. Spring Hill does have a ban prohibiting the growing of bamboo. The restriction against the highly invasive plant applies to all property owners in the city. A good idea would be to prohibit any future Bradford pear plantings by developers. The Ridgeport subdivision is loaded with Bradford pear trees, planted by developers mostly between 2001-03. They're entering old age and becoming more and more brittle by their very nature.
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Sherry Johnson would prefer the produce on your family's dinner table come from a local farm's harvest. Her dream is to create a place to purchase community-oriented agriculture and make it a regular part of Spring Hill -- today, tomorrow and in the future. "I am determined to make it work," she said, in late September when a poor vendor turnout along her Main Street location signaled finis to this year's attempt. "This is the time of year we needed the late season crops and we didn't get them." She is better known locally for the menagerie of animals in her Loving Touch Petting Zoo (By the way, it is an alpaca, not a llama) and admits she probably needs to scout for a better market location and to reach out to more producers to make it work. "Local produce" is key in her concept. "I know some of the other area markets, the ones that describe themselves as 'local' in nature, have produce brought in from all over." She cringed in the telling. What is local food? Some say it has to come from a 100-mile radius. For her, it needs to come from Spring Hill, or pert near.
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I have nothing against lizards, having had a blue-tailed one (it is actually a skink) residing somewhere in my dense front porch ground cover for years. I have even grown fond of seeing the little darter a couple of times per year. But, the Longview Lizards? Although there is certainly nothing wrong with going for alliteration in choosing school mascot names, I still hesitate in wondering how that happened. How about Lions or Leopards? Either one would have been in keeping with the big cat theme established by the Cheetahs of Chapman's Retreat. The word "lizard" comes with a tinge of sliminess attached to it, deservedly or not. I have a neighbor who has a young daughter who is a "Cheetah," by virtue of the school she attends. I, and my neighbor, both agree that is much better than her having a "Lizard" as a daughter. See what I mean?
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